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Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypic drug resistance patterns and clustering in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Apr 2015
Chaidir L, Sengstake S, de Beer J, Krismawati H, Lestari F D, Ayawaila S, van Soolingen D, Anthony R, van Crevel R, Alisjahbana B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Little is known about drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and its transmission in Papua, which has one of the highest rates of TB in Indonesia. DESIGN: We examined genotypic drug resistance patterns using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification and the degree of molecular clustering using 24-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) among 199...
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